“Family Interventions with Non Violent Resistance”
It’s great to see a new book in the field of child to parent violence and abuse coming out later…
Book review
Adopting: real life stories
I was a bit surprised when this book first dropped through my letter box. I hadn’t offered to review it and…
Book review: Anger is my friend
Why can it seem so difficult to engage young people in addressing their violence? Sam Ross suggests that we are…
Breaking the Cycle of child-to-parent violence and abuse
It’s always good to see new books published in this field, and so I was pleased to take a look…
Learning about feelings, building resilience with Cyril Squirrel
Cyril Squirrel Finds Out About Love, by Jane Evans (2016) Jessica Kingsley Publishers. I was very pleased to be asked…
Working with Adolescent Violence and Abuse Towards Parents: book review
With many papers and now two books to her name, Amanda Holt is a leading voice in the field of…
When children kill their parents.
The book currently at the top of my “to read” pile is Kathleen Heide‘s Understanding Parricide. Twenty years on from her…
Parenting a Violent Child: book review
What do you do if you are a parent experiencing violence and abuse from your child but there is no…
Adolescent Violence in the Home: Believe the Impossible!
In July I posted details of a newly published book about adolescence violence in the home from Gregg Routt and…
Some book reviews
A couple of reviews for Amanda Holt’s text, Adolescent-to-Parent Abuse: Current Understandings in Research, Policy and Practice, have been brought to…
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